As I get older, I find my attempts at Christmas become ever more cursory: I haven't begun shopping for presents; my Christmas tree is more of a Christmas shrub; and I can't even decide what I want from those who deign to ask me. It's all a lot of effort. Apparently Blizzard feels the same way, because the Winter Veil 'event' has descended on Hearthstone and it's not the company's most lavish Christmas do. The Stormwind and Orgrimmar boards have had a dusting of snow and cheery decorations, and winter will come to the other boards as the event proceeds through to January 6. Heroes, meanwhile, have been given festive greetings, plus we get 10 Classic card packs free... when we buy 40 or more. It's a long way from Scrooge-like, but it lacks the spirit of the holiday bashes Blizzard likes to throw in World of Warcraft. Still, there are supposed to be more festivities in the works—I'd like to see a Greatfather Winter-themed Tavern Brawl for...
Image copyright CRAIG HOLMES Image caption Basketball would be played in Victoria Square under Birmingham's proposals Birmingham has been congratulated by the mayor of Liverpool after being named England's candidate to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games. The city was chosen ahead of rival Liverpool by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Kuala Lumpur is likely to be the main rival bid to host the 2022 Games. But the UK government must still decide if a formal bid will be submitted, weighing up whether it would offer "value for money for the taxpayer". Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson tweeted : "Liverpool has lost its bid to host Commonwealth Games 2022 thanks to my team #proud. "Congratulations and good luck Birmingham - wish you well." Former Commonwealth gold medallist Brendan Foster said he was "delighted but not surprised" Birmingham had been chosen by the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. ...
Intel’s just hosted a behind-the-scenes Facebook live stream, finding some time for a cheeky tease of the release date for its 8th Gen Intel Core Coffee Lake processors. While Gregory Bryant, senior vice president, was having a chat about Intel 8th Gen CPUs, he placed down a coffee cup with the word ‘October’ emblazoned across. Hinting much? Don’t worry, that’s not all. Another Intel employee in the background is also sipping from a cup of coffee with ‘10.2017’ written on it. Either Intel be trolling, or we’re powering towards a next-gen CPU launch next month. My money’s on the latter. Somewhat confusingly, the 8th Gen of Intel Core processors will consist of a mixture of Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake and Cannonlake. This kind of flies in the face of the typical generations we’ve come to expect, splitting the CPUs across architectures and, in the case of Cannonlake, even process nodes. Previously, and CPUs of the same generation would same the same CPU microarchitecture and process nod...
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